Wimp Factor : Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Fear and the Phallus: An Introduction -- 1. From Mama's Boy to He-Man: Developmental and Cultural Paths to Anxious Masculinity -- 2. The Miss Nancy Man in Nineteenth-century America: Historical Roots of Anxious Male Politics -- 3. The Wimp Factor: Performing Masculinity in the Presidential Career of George Herbert Walker Bush -- 4. Vaginas with Teeth and Castrating First Ladies: Fantasies of Feminine Danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton -- 5. Permutations of the Presidential Phallus: Representations of Bill Clinton, from Emasculated Househusband to Envied Stud Muffin -- 6. Voting Like a Man: The Psychodynamics of the Gender Gap in Political Attitudes -- 7. Gender in a Time of Holy War: Fundamentalist Femiphobia and Post-9/11 Masculinity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition.

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